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Visa Calamity
One of the things that makes the United States of America truly exceptional in the world is the our truly amazing system of higher education. Think about the very top universities in the world. How many of them are in… Continue Reading
Hooray For Meghan McCain
The Republican Party needs a new direction and a new leader. Meghan McCain is obviously not that person, but I could live with her being a minor figurehead. Especially after she drops this bomb — her beef with Ann Coulter.… Continue Reading
Debunking Myths About Middle Class Taxes
A quick bit of armchair fiddling around gives me this experiment: Let’s take a taxpayer who makes $60,000 a year in taxable income in 2009, and normalize that for the various years I looked at earlier. I’m assuming that this… Continue Reading
We Are All Agnostics About Tax Policy
I want to point out that last night, after considerable analysis of tax tables going back to 1945, I discovered something quite interesting. Individual income tax rates, whether high or low, seem to have little direct correlation with whether the… Continue Reading
On Steele v. Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer. First and foremost, he is driven by the need for ratings, to attract ears and eyeballs to his show. He has figured out a product that sells, found a very large niche in the media… Continue Reading
Two Month Update
At the end of December, I made sixteen predictions for 2009. Here’s how I’m doing so far: Prediction Status The United States Federal deficit for calendar year 2009 will exceed $1.5 trillion. I may have been too modest in this… Continue Reading
Make A Small Promise Seem Big
President Obama, directly addressing a critical issue, has promised to reduce budget deficit to $650 billion by 2013. To get that promise, I have to parse through a few of his statements, like his evaluation that the government was running… Continue Reading
Topsy-Turvy World
If I were to ask you to describe the general political tenor of two states in the USA — Arkansas and Washington — you would probably have the first reaction that I did, which is to assume that Arkansas is… Continue Reading
Bipartisanship Manifests
See? It’s not just Republicans who are lying, corrupt scumbags. And I’m not even (directly) talking about Rod Blagojevich, whose scumminess, corruption, and veracity deficiency have been well documented already. Indirectly, he’s in the news again — turns out that… Continue Reading